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Biographer Masha Gessen: Vladimir Putin is "a ruthless dictator" who is in the "last stages of his regime"
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Masha Gessen, the Moscow based journalist holding both Russian and US citizenship, has written an unofficial and highly critical biography of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Today she was interviewed by Susan Wood of New Zealand's TVnz.:SUSAN&n...
"Euroskeptic" Herman Van Rompuy in keynote speech: "No public support at all" for "more Europe"
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Has Herman Van Rompuy gone Euroskeptic? For the first time ever, EU "president" Van Rompuy had something sensible to say about the European Union. In a "keynote Speech at the Federation of Young European Greens" he had this to say:Some are...
Episcopal "green" bishop Cederholm conducts service to bless solar panels
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The Episcopal Church in Massachusetts seems to be a "church of many colors".Today the "green" bishop Bud Cederholm, who has campaigned together with the likes of Bill McKibben, will bless the taxpayer subsidized, more or less useless solar panels ins...
Daniel Hannan (MEP): "There is nothing modern about the EU"
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Daniel Hannan again hits the nail on the head in his Telegraph column:The EU is a 1950s solution to a 1930s problem. In an age which places a premium on responsiveness, litheness and deregulation, Europe is a clumsy, tottering mammoth. Its share of w...
CEO of Atlanta-based Southern Co about renewables: “What do you do when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine?”
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Tom Fanning, CEO of the Atlanta-based energy company Southern Co, gives the facts about renewable energy in a nutshell:But as Southern moves toward less reliance on coal because of looming federal regulation of carbon emissions, most of the shift in...
Dr. Roy Spencer: Increase in "superstorms" is "an urban myth"
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The mainly warmist Catholic Online is to be congratulated for publishing an interview with Dr. Roy Spencer. As usually, Dr. Spencer's views are wise and balanced: COL: Well, let's cut to the chase. Is the planet warming?SPENCER: ...
Angela Merkel was closer to the East German communist apparatus than previously thought
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Angela Merkel propagated Marxism-Leninism at the East German Academy of Sciences.A new biography covering German Chancellor Angela Merkel's life in DDR reveals that she was much closer to the communist party apparatus and ideology than previously tho...
Andrew Bolt about the death of the global warming scare
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Australian climate realist Andrew Bolt's account of the death of the global warming scare is worth reading:The 10 signs of the death of the scare are unmistakable. Now it's time to hold the guilty to account.Just why did we spend the past year paying...
Al Gore - "the most succesful loser in the world"
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The Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente has written an interesting column about Al Gore, "the most successful loser in the world":It’s good to be Al Gore. He must be the most successful loser in the world. Thirteen years after he ran for presi...
Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson: The European Union has lost its legitimacy
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This morning there are probably a number of Brussels eurocrats in need of a cure after celebrating Europe Day with too many glasses of champagne. Reading professor Niall Ferguson's excellent article should at least wake them up:I’m absolutely c...
UN climate alarmists preparing their next trick: A "flexible" 2015 agreement, not "cast in stone"
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The UN climate talks are - thank God - not of any interest to major international news media anymore. However, just in case somebody is interested, the latest round of this endless talkathon wrapped up in Bonn last week. The UN club of internati...
A Europe Day message from the editor of Germany's most widely read weekly: "Who wants to be ruled from Brussels rather than from his or her own capital?"
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On this Europe Day Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of Germany's most widely read weekly newspaper, Die Zeit, has a message: So is Europe history now? We don’t know yet. But we do know one thing: that the experiment has failed in one sen...
"They called me Herman" Van Rompuy on the current EU crisis: "Weak growth or youth employment are not the monopoly of the South"!
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"They called me Herman" Van Rompuy has met with students in Helsinki: The President of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, and Finnish premier Jyrki Katainen held a one-hour public discussion session at the University of Helsinki to debate...
A Bloomberg editorial on corruption in Putin's Russia
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"The editors" of Bloomberg have written an editorial about corruption in Putin's Russia:Unfortunately, corruption is an integral part of the state- based economic system Putin has built since he took power in 2000. In the oil and gas sector, for...
The importance of Lord Lawson's message
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Nigel Lawson (now Lord Lawson of Blaby), Margaret Thatcher's longest-serving Chancellor yesterday showed why he is head and shoulders above the pygmy politicians now in charge of the UK government: The British former chancellor of the exch...
The European Union's new propaganda video: "They called me Herman"
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"THEY CALLED ME HERMAN"!The European Union has published a new propaganda video, starring the SchuBarRom Trio (presidents Van Rompuy, Barroso and Schulz), each praising their own work. The completely useless video, which has been viewed a whopping 35...
Die Welt about the total failure of Germany's heavily subsidized solar and biofuel industries
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The total failure of Angela Merkel's "green" energy policy is becoming more evident every day. The quality daily Die Welt now reports that the billions of subsidies to the solar and biofuel industries have been a total waste of German taxpayers' mone...
Placido Domingo as Putin's useful idiot
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How sad it was to see Placido Domingo, perhaps the world's greatest living operatic singer, in the role of the useful idiot. That happened on Thursday, when Domingo joined Russia's corrupt dictator Vladimir Putin at a black-tie-gala to mark the openi...
Germany celebrates its export successes while indoctrinating children in poor countries against "cars, buses and factories"
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Promoting Germany's industrial exports is one of the most important activities of Angela Merkel's government: In Germany, industrial exports are seen not merely as the consequence of the competitiveness of the economy, but as a goal in...
The great Stalin revival continues in Russia
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The Great LeaderThe Stalin revival continues in Putin's Russia: First it was the Soviet national anthem. Then it was the Soviet military parades. Now it is the Soviet lapel pins glorifying heroic work for the motherland. On May 1, Russ...
